News from the Trail
The first team has reached Nome, the Iditarod has it's 2020 champion! While the winner of this year's race is now in, 44 other teams are still at it, all on their own personal journeys to complete the roughly 1,000 miles of challenging terrain across Alaska. Simply making it the whole way is a feat. The race celebrates the tenacity of the last racer to find their way to the burled arch on Front Street in Nome with the Red Lantern Award. Mushers will be coming in for days. There's still more tails & tales to follow.
As the students pointed out on Monday, there is connection and irony in the fact that the only major sporting event still happening is the Iditarod, which is a race that commemorates the great "serum run" of 1925, in which a relay of dog teams traveled across Alaska carrying medicine to treat a diptheria outbreak in Nome.
Here are some photos of individual dogs & teams waiting for their plane rides home via the volunteer Iditarod Air Force, a group of pilots and their planes that perennially support the complicated logistics of running a dynamic, long distance event such as this. Thanks again for the photos Scooter!
As the students pointed out on Monday, there is connection and irony in the fact that the only major sporting event still happening is the Iditarod, which is a race that commemorates the great "serum run" of 1925, in which a relay of dog teams traveled across Alaska carrying medicine to treat a diptheria outbreak in Nome.
Here are some photos of individual dogs & teams waiting for their plane rides home via the volunteer Iditarod Air Force, a group of pilots and their planes that perennially support the complicated logistics of running a dynamic, long distance event such as this. Thanks again for the photos Scooter!
